Talad (Leader / Founder)
Eonwind (Rules)
Tuathanach (Rules)
Zunna (Rules / Settings)
Mordaan (Settings)
Venalan (Settings Lead)
Uadjet (GM Lead)
Emaline (GM Team)
Zweitholou (Art)
Gonger (PR)
(22:11:51) [chat]
Uadjet: So, welcome to the Developer's Q&S!
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Uadjet: So the first thing to address is that Talad has figured out how to upgrade PS to the newer version of Advanced Locomotion Systems.
(22:16:20) [chat] Anysu: Will that fix the push ups?
(22:16:21) [chat]
Uadjet: Once he upgrades the game, there should be no more pushups and every type of movement should be working properly.
(22:20:29) [chat] >Anysu cheers happily!
(22:20:53) [chat]
Gonger: Great news!
(22:21:35) [chat]
Uadjet: Ah, there's one issue remaining, but the pushups will go away.
(22:22:26) [chat]
Uadjet: Just a little more work.
(22:23:21) [chat]
Uadjet: In other news, with the addition of a few animal spawns those quests I did a while back should be ready to go.
(22:24:11) [chat]
Uadjet: I've got 19 quests involving the observatory, some fishing quests, some farming quests, and an intro to lumberjacking quest.
(22:24:24) [chat]
Uadjet: Plus a few more quests in Delving.
(22:26:43) [chat]
Uadjet: Oh, and I have to create one more NPC. One quest has three branches, and the third branch will require a new NPC if I keep the branch.
(22:26:56) [chat]
Gonger: I must get back into questing mode...
(22:27:09) [chat] Anysu: Cool about the quests.
(22:28:54) [chat]
Uadjet: Okay, for Gova the upgrade to the new version of ALS is nearly done, so the pushups shouldn't be around too much longer. Also, new quests will hopefully be here by Christmas.
(22:29:40) [chat] Gova: Ah, nice!
(22:30:31) [chat]
Gonger: I want nothing else for Christmas!
(22:32:50) [chat]
Uadjet: So, those are my announcements. Anyone have anything else to discuss?
(22:33:30) [chat]
Gonger: As I said during the last meeting, I did some testing of the Dryken Plane.
(22:33:38) [chat]
Gonger: I did not yet have time to write in the forums.
(22:34:12) [chat]
Gonger: For me, the Plane is certainly doable by now. There is still room for improvements, like different colours for all shards and their portals, but it is doable.
(22:34:45) [chat]
Gonger: Still, since the Plane is unrelated to the rest of our world, it remains a strange place to get started.
(22:35:00) [chat] >Anysu nods.
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Gonger: Hence also my proposition to use several similar instances of the Plane later in the game, with increasing complexity. Talad never gave an answer to that.
(22:35:35) [chat] Anysu: Nice to know plane is doable
(22:36:34) [chat]
Gonger: Yeah, and once the pushup problems is solved, we will be less likely to chase off newbies from the start.
(22:37:45) [chat]
Gonger: I will see how much else I can do over the end-of-year holidays
(22:38:26) [chat]
Gonger: In RL I have started the quest "Go for Retirement", but there are quite some bureaucrazy hurdles...
(22:38:43) [chat] >Anysu nods at Gonger.
(22:40:11) [chat]
Gonger: Bureaucrazy was a computer adventure game where the player had to get through huge amounts of bureaucracy without suffering a heart attack or a brain stroke from anger, depression and frustration.
(22:41:42) [chat]
Gonger: I will also re-re-re-nudge Talad in the forums about the mass mailing to Ancient Players...
(22:42:58) [chat]
Gonger: Uadjet, maybe you know... Yesterday there was a question since when we all have been playing. This and other information was easily available in the old version.
(22:43:07) [chat]
Gonger: Will these things all come back with due time?
(22:44:59) [chat] Anysu: After Gonger, my question is: Did Talad finish fishing game?
(22:45:27) [chat]
Uadjet: I can look that up if you like. It used to be available on MyPlane, which hasn't been brought back yet. It's planned to come back, buy I don't know how hard it is to synch Unreal with a website like that.
(22:46:07) [chat]
Gonger: I think MyPlane was very useful...
(22:48:01) [chat]
Gonger: Thank you, Uadjet.
(22:48:35) [chat]
Uadjet: For fishing, the game is working but it's a matter of getting it working in multiplayer. I think.
(22:49:00) [chat] Anysu: Okay. Thank you Uadjet
(22:49:30) [chat]
Uadjet: As a stand-alone game it works, it's just... fitting that particular case into the trunk, essentially. Getting it to mesh with a server-client setup and making sure it doesn't turn all Enki green or something.
(22:49:40) [chat]
Uadjet: Thosor?
(22:49:44) [chat] Thosor: Didn't the pushups start after some leg animation fixes? And can we revert a few changes?
(22:49:46) [chat] >Anysu nods at Uadjet.
(22:50:01) [chat]
Uadjet: They started after upgrading the version of Unreal that we're using.
(22:50:16) [chat] Thosor: No, it was well after
(22:50:35) [chat] Thosor: or you mean the point release?
(22:50:55) [chat]
Uadjet: Hmm. I'll check. Talad did mention that it seems related to some blance check that ALS does if a character's feet are too far apart.
(22:51:14) [chat] Thosor: Thank you
(22:51:35) [chat]
Gonger: I also seem to remember that it started with the first release for the new Unreal Engine version.
(22:52:01) [chat] >Anysu nods at Gonger.
(22:52:15) [chat] Thosor: I wonder if I have any dated video clips...
(22:53:45) [chat] Thosor: no further questions
(22:55:06) [chat] Anysu: I had another quick one
(22:55:17) [chat]
Uadjet: Yes?
(22:55:20) [chat] Anysu: Was there a market today?
(22:56:24) [chat] Anysu: Talk about market yesterday. So wondered if had one and had a turn out of players
(22:56:34) [chat] Anysu: today.
(22:56:58) [chat]
Gonger: I was too late today, so I could not tell.
(22:57:16) [chat]
Gonger: But there were / are not many players online today...
(22:57:39) [chat] Thosor: Only 2 or so all week
(22:58:14) [chat] Anysu: okay.
(23:00:54) [chat] Anysu: Not many here for Dev meet today.
(23:01:13) [chat]
Uadjet: Yeah, probably because the calendar hasn't updated.
(23:01:47) [chat] Anysu: Will calander get fixed?
(23:02:59) [chat]
Uadjet: Yeah, it just needs a restart.
(23:03:43) [chat] >Anysu nods at Uadjet.
(23:04:45) [chat] Kerilo: It's a little late to comment but the new changes sound very nice.
(23:06:37) [chat]
Uadjet: I do really like the look of the fishing minigame.
(23:07:34) [chat] Anysu: I have yet to try fishing in this version of game.
(23:08:05) [chat] Anysu: Hooking treasures would be cool.
(23:08:18) [chat] Thosor: Or your line breaking.
(23:08:58) [chat] Anysu: If that was something that could be added to fishing.
(23:09:27) [chat]
Uadjet: I've been trying to figure out how hard it is to make minigames, like board games. I think not-Chinese Checkers might be a fun one to have.
(23:09:50) [chat]
Uadjet: Or a Nolthrir-themed backgammon game with little fish.
(23:09:53) [chat] Anysu: mini games to do in taverns.
(23:10:29) [chat] Thosor: Chess would be fun, but then no time to play PSU.
(23:11:17) [chat]
Gonger: Well, yes... there are thousands of websites for free Chess and such...
(23:11:38) [chat]
Gonger: But some PS-related mini games, now THAT would be something...
(23:12:19) [chat] >Anysu nods at Gonger.
(23:12:37) [chat] Thosor: Even have an Enki waitress accidently wipe your pices with her tail.
(23:13:47) [chat]
Gonger: Mayhap we all should be thinking a bit about how to make PS-related mini games...
(23:14:28) [chat]
Gonger: In my MUD I had started outlining such a game, but then the MUD collapsed.
(23:14:38) [chat]
Gonger: I will give this some thought...
(23:14:55) [chat] Thosor: What is a MUD?
(23:15:03) [chat] >Anysu nods at Gonger.
(23:15:42) [chat] Kerilo: a mud is a text beast multiplayer game.
(23:16:08) [chat] Thosor: ah
(23:16:10) [chat] Anysu: precursor to the games of today
(23:16:50) [chat]
Gonger: Multi-User Dungeon
(23:17:02) [chat]
Gonger: Yeah, I am old...
(23:17:33) [chat]
Gonger: But Neil Young was 25 when singing about getting old, so what...
(23:19:03) [chat] Kerilo: there have been xkcd comics about feeling old.
(23:21:26) [chat]
Uadjet: Okay, so we can bring the meeting to a close. Thank you all for coming, and I'll see you at the next meeting in two weeks! Until then, have fun playing and maybe try and event or two!
(23:22:33) [chat]
Gonger: Thank you! Don't forget to leave... well you know what I mean.
